Infrarenal Infected Aortic Aneurysm Caused by Streptococcus pyogenes

Infectious aneurysm is a rare entity associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Current knowledge on pathogenesis, outcome, diagnosis, management, and follow-up remains debatable. We report the case of a patient with Streptococcus pyogenes aneurysm who was successfully treated with a homog...

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Autores principales: Cherbanyk, Floryn, Menth, Markus, Egger, Bernhard, Erard, Véronique
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5414497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28503338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9329504
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author Cherbanyk, Floryn
Menth, Markus
Egger, Bernhard
Erard, Véronique
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description Infectious aneurysm is a rare entity associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Current knowledge on pathogenesis, outcome, diagnosis, management, and follow-up remains debatable. We report the case of a patient with Streptococcus pyogenes aneurysm who was successfully treated with a homograft implant and discuss microbiological characteristics, diagnostic methods, and treatment options currently available for this serious disease.
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spelling pubmed-54144972017-05-14 Infrarenal Infected Aortic Aneurysm Caused by Streptococcus pyogenes Cherbanyk, Floryn Menth, Markus Egger, Bernhard Erard, Véronique Case Rep Surg Case Report Infectious aneurysm is a rare entity associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Current knowledge on pathogenesis, outcome, diagnosis, management, and follow-up remains debatable. We report the case of a patient with Streptococcus pyogenes aneurysm who was successfully treated with a homograft implant and discuss microbiological characteristics, diagnostic methods, and treatment options currently available for this serious disease. Hindawi 2017 2017-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5414497/ /pubmed/28503338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9329504 Text en Copyright © 2017 Floryn Cherbanyk et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Infrarenal Infected Aortic Aneurysm Caused by Streptococcus pyogenes
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title_full Infrarenal Infected Aortic Aneurysm Caused by Streptococcus pyogenes
title_fullStr Infrarenal Infected Aortic Aneurysm Caused by Streptococcus pyogenes
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title_short Infrarenal Infected Aortic Aneurysm Caused by Streptococcus pyogenes
title_sort infrarenal infected aortic aneurysm caused by streptococcus pyogenes
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5414497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28503338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9329504
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